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...Communists have almost throttled open opposition in Eastern Europe. Last week their stooges took over the remnants of Mikolajcyk's Peasant Party in Poland and denounced "Anglo-Saxon imperialism." Last fortnight a military court sentenced Rumania's Maniu to life imprisonment. Yugoslavia's Mihailovich and Bulgaria's Petkoff had long since been shot. Hungary's Communists had swallowed the Smallholders Party, and last week Czech Communists began to break up their opposition with arrests...
...Anglo-Saxon Americans still retain a warm regard for what we knew as England. But that was a fighting and not a whining England. We think that it is England's tragedy when Englishmen accuse us of wanting to use England as our shield in a war with Russia. What kind of a shield would England make? Unless she gets up off her spiritual fanny, she will be a minor province of the Russian Empire-and soon...
...case becomes far more than one of simple justice or family honor: it involves the sacred Anglo-Saxon principle of individual human rights against even the State itself. On that ground, despite an awful drain on his health and purse, young Winslow's father stubbornly hangs on, and finally wins...
When one wants to know-something, the old Anglo-Saxon custom is to go find out. Here the seemingly obvious course calls for responsible interested parties on the University scene to go about the formation of an impartial, broad-based group to investigate the inner workings of the Hygiene Department and its standing in the intercollegiate picture. Membership could include representatives from the Student Council, Graduate Advisory Council, Law School Record, and Business School News as well as a spokesman for University Hall and a prominent Boston medic...
Answers for the Unbright. But most baffling to the witnesses was the Anglo-Saxon labyrinth for sifting evidence. Sometimes it seemed inscrutable, sometimes not quite bright. The defense counsel appeared to be bothered, for instance, when a fisherman said he had pulled "Wong's body" out of the river-and then admitted he had not known the deceased. "Then how did you know the body was Wong's?" Retorted the fisherman: "Wong's parents told me." Any Chinese could understand that, but it was "hearsay" in Anglo...